So today, all the lovely chair-barricades (chairricades?) were gone. Even 2/3 of the overturned tables in the lobby, which had been there forever, were gone. So much for impact. I dunno, I’d kind of expected that if the students were prepared to drag around all that furniture, they were going to assume it would be […]

Hey, did you know there’s still a strike going on? In France? Same as the past month-and-a-bit? Yeah, it’s still getting on my nerves. At least this week I haven’t had to endure self-righteous foreign-exchange students debating the matter. Each of my professors is clings to her previous attitude, only moreso; one is ever more […]

Yeah, haven’t posted in a while. Same excuse, not much has been happening. Have walked around a bit. Last week the Discovery of Paris class took a field trip to the Museum of Fashion. No photography inside the museum, of course. Took pictures of the building and garden and stuff: Statue of Hercules and someone-or-other […]

For whatever reason, I’ve noticed that when this blog gets spam comments, it’s overwhelmingly targeted at the “American Food Chains In Paris” post, which must have some oddly alluring combination of keywords for spambots. Anyway, some pretty pictures of Paris in the Springtime: In the dorm complex area by the street. Closeup of grass, note […]

That was my first thought upon stepping out of the dorms today. Spring is here! Which is the first line of a Tom Lehrer song that I get periodically stuck in my head, so I’m once more compelled, naturally, to embed the appropriate Youtube vid so one may get the proper impressions and connotations of […]

Ooh, wow, my 20th post. A right milestone, this is. Little to report, but felt I might as well. My lit course had its second proper class today. Of course, a lot of time was spent recapping what had been said on the first class a month ago, which was dull but necessary, I suppose, […]

Sometime last week this lovely little bit of paper appeared in my dorm mailbox (seen below in initial stages of filling-out): It’s an Official Survey of some sort or other on housing and employment and whatnot. It claimed to be mandatory, but I got the sense that by mandatory they meant “something we’d really prefer […]

And here’s pictures from the rest of the tour of the Parc de Bagatelle: A building. Also water. A cave, w/ waterfall! Building up close w/ sphynx-y things. Statues on other side of building. The restaurant at the Parc. Not sure why this one came out b/w, I probably had the camera on the wrong […]

Wednesday, the Découverte de Paris class went on its first lovely field trip, to the Parc de Bagatelle. Naturally, this was the first gray day after two weeks of happy pretty sunshine. The professor maintained that she’d telephoned the Cosmic Weather Department and asked for clear skies. As proof that this worked, she offered the […]

I’ve been meaning to mention that my recent trips to the 13eme have given me the opportunity to use, repeatedly, the #14 line, which may be the nicest subway I’ve ever ridden. For starters, the tracks are blocked off from the platform by plastic barriers with doors that only open when the train arrives, so […]